hep c source

[hardluck]

Hi,All.is there any way of finding out how i got the hep''c'' in the first place.
Thanks..Dai..

[RobertBeWell]

"The only thing that does matter is that you were lucky the day you found out you had it - most people want to think it's their unlucky day but once you know you have it you can monitor it and then make the appropriate calls as to whether you need to treat or not etc. "

Right on nygirl. In this case, ignorance is NOT bliss. When you know, you can fight.  Much better than waking up one morning to find out you just don't feel so well.

[nygirl7]

Most of us obsess about that when we find out we have it but no unless you had a needlestick but never used drugs or got a tattoo or piercing......it's really impossible to tell.

If you have had a biopsy you can sort of GUESS but there is no exact way to tell by stages of the damage....still if you know you did drugs in the 80s and are a stage 3 for example but have been clean for the 90s onwards.....you can guess that you got it back then.  Still at that you could have gotten it in a number of places and like Trin said there are lots of people who have none of the classic ways that they could have gotten it.

The only thing that does matter is that you were lucky the day you found out you had it - most people want to think it's their unlucky day but once you know you have it you can monitor it and then make the appropriate calls as to whether you need to treat or not etc.

[Trinity4]

You probably know the most common modes of transmission.  If nothing applies then you fall into the 35 percent who don't know how they were infected.

It really doesn't matter in the big scheme to things.

Trinity